I’ve been digging through and playing with the Rails Framework now for about 4 months with intent (I guess I’ve read about it, learned about, but not played with it for well over 4 years). I’ve gained a pretty good familiarity with the parts of the framework. Below, I’ve laid out some of the key... Continue reading →

How do you know that Ruby on Rails has already hit the big time? Not that it needs anymore proof that it is absolutely one of the MAJOR platforms available right now… Recruiters now regularly come to user groups & offer to “buy the beer” afterwards. The split of job searches on sites now easily... Continue reading →

I’ve been working with Rails now for about 3 months. At first I jumped right in like a bull in a china shop. I have since, suffered the frustration of doing so. I’ve experimented on OS-X, Windows, and Linux (primarily the Ubuntu Distro). Among these three operating systems, getting up and running with rails is... Continue reading →

So a few weeks back I created a Rubymine Ruby on Rails Project I was kicking off. I got it running, did some scaffolding, started customizing that for what I needed. I had created this project on Windows 7 and did not realize the implications of this. I did a clone via github of the... Continue reading →

This evening at the Cafe Racer Ruby on Rails meetupI knocked out these specific tasks. Kilt Lifter by Pike Brewing Company Drank a solid tasty Kilt Lifter. Created a sample beginning application, with standard migrations, and errata, and made two simple models with respective scaffolding. Deployed the beginnings of a sample application to Heroku. Deployed... Continue reading →